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DAN AMETTEGAN
NASSER'S NEXT HK Government Grant Of $350,000 To Faculty Of Engineering Alleged
UNIVERSITY EXPANSION Offer Of
SWOOP!
He's After Sudan
Comment Of The
Day
Frustrated Plot
VHILE All eyes were
.ordan and its tough, silient young King Hasseln in his battle for survival
gainst Nanner, a sudden
Two More Courses
CROWD TRY TO STORM BERLIN COMMUNIST RALLY
To Be Added
By ANDREW SLOAN
It was learned this morning that the Hong- kong Government has agreed to provide the sum of $350,000 to help the Univer sity of Hongkong expand their Faculty of Engineering to train electrical and mechanical engineers.
coup bus toppled the Govern At present the University trains only civil en-
ment of Sudan. As our
October headline shows
above), It was not unex-
ported. But it seems that
the Budnacee Army hus
gineers.
beaten Cairo to the panch 11 Minutes Ahead
For mouths now, relations be- i tween Sudan and Egypt have i
Nile been strained. The waters, frontiers and trade have provided the main dif- fcuftier. Nasser*x recent threat to annex a Sudan34998! frontler district- -be actuaily sent in troops and Inter withdrew them aroused widespread indignation. And Prime Minister Khall's decision to press on with Sudanese schemes for the exploliation of north- wards-flowing Nile River waters hos sharpened feelings.
Of The Comet
Boeing 707
Trade Boycott
THEN there has been the A Egyptian boycott on trade with Sudan. Nisser suddenly stopped his traditional im- 1 purts of cattie, camels, dates and millet. Sudan was saved largely by a big
American
Was First
Across
Atlantic
New York,, Nov. 18. Pan-American World Airways Boeing 707 jet airliner landed at Idlewild Airport today 11 minutes before a British Overseas Airways Corporation Comet IV jel which had been steadily over- their taking throughout trans-Atlantic Bight from London airport.
it
of
The American piane made the journey in an elapsed time nine hours nine minutes and flying time of seven hours 27
minutes.
Some thne ago, the University approached Government for as- sistance In their expansion scheme to set up these courses,
this year,
new
an
In February Engineering Advisory committee pas- was set up to study the
venture. It sibilities of this consisted of leading local in- dustrialists, who planned ques- tlonnaires which were sent to the In companies
various Colony.
The questionnaires asked: Do you think there will be a need for fully qualified, locally- trained engineers in the Colony? Would you be able to employ such persons? and, Would you consider giving Sancial tance to such a scheme?
Magin-
Mr A. G. Rowo-Evans, Regis- war of the University, said this inorning that most of the re- pites had been favourable.
50-50 Basis
He said that Government has now agreed to split the cost on u 50-50 basla $700,000.
A Government suid: Government
at cstimated
of
statement has agreed so provide half the capital ex- penditure, estimated at $700,000 involved in a programme expansion of the Faculty Engineering to help the HKU to offer courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in addition to Civil Engineering, 101
has been made but this offer
conditions, subject to certain one of which is that the HKU the should be able to raise other half of the cost from other sources.
ald grant. But there Je other long-standing griev- ances. Nasser has long want- ed to extend his control to The southern borders of Sudan which would have given him a grip right into the heart of Afrien. it would also have brought him to the borders of Uganda and Kenya and the bead waters of the Nile. Insidious attempts at Egyptian
subversion
have been brought to light in Khar-
H. A. U. Todd said in a letter to
Ma toum and the outlying pro-
the editor of the China When the Comet landed vinces. Bribes-a typical Nassor weapon-have been Idlewild it had an elapsed time
of nine hours 56 minutes and liberally sprinkled among
of right hours journalists, newspaper lying time
owners, young Army officera.) (and in a smaller way, cafe owners, to keep shop radios tuned Into Cairo). There have been purges in Army and above all
the the
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plane look of The British from London 35 minutes ahead hád of the Boeing 707, but already lost 20 minutes to when both planes landed Gander, Newfoundland, for refuelling stop.
minutes.
In Sight
In yesterday's China Mail, the at Staff Manager of the Shell Com-
pany of Hongkong
Ltd, Mr
a
at
20
The Boeing passed the Comnet 100 miles cast of Boston. The two jels were then in sight of each other. The Boeing's total
coalition Government has flying time was 53 minutes been creaking at the joints, faster than the Comet's. part favouring much closer tles with Nasser than Prime Minister Khalil le willing to concede.
Secret Bargain
U
TNOFFICAL negotiations
between Sudan's
pro- Nanser Commerce Minister, Abdul Rahman and Cairo have recently given rino to fears that a clandestine ar- Tangement was in the offing whereby lahman would re- turn to Khartoum with wido conccasions by Egypt on the Isaura. Thene disputed
the
the
Captain Benjamin Harreli pilot of the American plane was asked later who had won the race and replied: "What race?" But he told reporters be had kept a
when check on American plane passed Comet.
Captali Mervyn Smith, the Comet pliot, denied there had been "any suggestion of a_race," and added: "It was just a routine flight."
both Smith Captain plane had been slowed by
end wind of about 40 mph across the Atlantic-Reuter.
would be used to enhance hQUEMOY SHELLING
reputation among Sudan'a and discredit the
танася
pro-Western Prime Minister.
The suggestion is that Prime
Minister Khalil, like, U Nu
Burma
in
RESUMED
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Talpel, Nov. 19. Communiat,shelling of the and Iskander offshore tolands resumed Mirza in
Pakistan, kas minutes after midnight, it was handed over a deteriorating announced here lodny.
During five hours they fired political aituation to the Commander-in-Chief of tho only 27 rounds, the fightert Army. Aim? To atop the shelling since the bombardment began on August 20-France- rot, and nave Sudan trom Presse. becoming vinco of the UAR. incidentally in the father. An-law of General Wahah, chief supporter of the Army coup. There is no doubt that
Routhern pro
Khalil
Moon Probe
Washington, Nov. 10.) Aviation Week magazina sald today that the United States Nassor has been frustrated Army planned two moonshots And in a way which honoxt month from Cape Cant. Can only-approve. After all, I'veral in Florida, the first, on
December B-Neuter. he set the stylo.
that his company had "spontane ously offered to make a substan- tiul grant towards the setting up of 1 Faculty Mechanical Engineering at the University, provided the Faculty was in fact set up and the degree recognised of Mechanical by the Institute EngineerS."
Where Caesar Was Killed?
Rone, Nov. 18. Roadmenders digging a drain today unearthed part of a 2,000- year-old theatre in which Julius Caemar is said 10 have been stabbed to death.
Coup Leader
Will Restore
Democracy To Sudan
Khartoum, Nov. 18. Lieutenant General Ibra
him Abboud, leader of yesterday's bloodless coup to- in the Sudan, sald
the armed night that forces did not intend to "hold power for ever."
At his first press conference the he said he hoped that Sudah would return to its normal democratie life in every way.
Questioned
British About arms gifts, and Russian offers of ald, General Abboud sold the new regime would accept anything it considered
in the
Interest of the country, but would reject anything which might harm is independence and sovereignty.
Its
The new cabinet is to hald first meeting tomorrow morning.
Resumption
Announcing publication
by
of
With their truncheons drawn West German police break up the crowd of anti-Communist students who tried to break through the cordon of police who were on guard outside the Sports Palace during the first major Communist rally to be field in West Berlin since the war-Keystone Photo.
ADENAUER
RAPPED BY
HIS ALLIES
By DOUGLAS CLARK
London, Nov. 18.
FESTING TO VISIT
CYPRUS
Nicosia, Nov. 18. General Sir Francis Festing, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will pay o brief visit to Cyprus this weekend, it was authorita- tively learned here to- night.
He will have talks with the Governor, Sir Hugh Foot, the Commander-in-Chief of the Mid-East Land Forces, General Sir Roger Bower and the Direc- for
General of Operations, Kenneth Darling.
The town of Paphos and 40 nearby villages in West Cyprus were placed under indefinite curlow today as British troops launched another major operu-
A number of people have al- roody been arrested in the
some of the operation, which was planned to capture men on
the "wanted" list and illegal 1.oards
of arms-Reuter, and France-Presso.
The West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauern against Eolón terrorists.
is in big trouble with his major Allies. They have told him that his policy towards the Soviets and East German Communists is becoming too soft. Even the United States for whom he has so far been the blue-eyed boy among Europe's poli- tical leaders had joined in protesta.
WARSHIP FIRES ON TRAWLER
Behind this rap is the grow-
suspicion ing
in London, Washington and. .Paris that Adenauer is getting ready to do a deal with East Germany.
The nimediate cause of the row is a nole.from Adenauer to Russia about Germany's future which was published to
Current historical opinion is
Tokyo, Nov, 10. resumption that Brutus stabbed Caesar in
The Japanese couniguard set-toy. newspapers, vice today warned fishing vessels the hall Pompey's Theatre General Abboud made the con- to be cautious in the East Chira and not on the Capital Hill dillon that they must not the place named by Shakes-publish anything
Sea after receiving overnight ra peare/Router.
bad shelled Jepariens hermen ment or pariles and religious inte last night and early this
Polio Cases
Singapore, Nov. 18. Ten more pollumyelitis casen were reported in Singapore to- day, bringing the total for the '11-week-old. epidemic in the colony to 300, with eight deaths, ---Iteuler.
against
It proposes firstly a Big Four conference which might meet to discuss the German. probleni connected with the preparation of a German peace treaty."
foreign countries, the govern-porty that unidenüfted warships which should include "questions
sects."
morning.
He appealed to the press to The Japanese Maritline Bafety help the new regime to carry out Board bald today # 303-ton iis task to overcome the present Japanese trawler was fired upon chaos, cvrruption and instability, by an unidentiled foreign veseel while operating 230 miles west of Cheju island in the East China Bea this morning.
The
trawler managed cscape--Reuter,
The new regime "had nothing against anybody" and would not go back to lie past, the General added,-Router.
RED INDIANS SEEK THE QUEEN'S HELP
Washington, Nov, 18.. DEPRESENTATIVES of a tribe
of fled Indians sought: the help of the queen and ; the Delish Government today in Thele Oght for 208,000 Mores of swampland in Florida.
bers
Four enlourfully Stested mem- of the Mlocatukee and
The Cow Creek, telben !, of Beminele Indian nation onilod at the Xitish Embassy. They
wern but
courteously recelyed were told that Britain'] could not interfera in the in- ternal affales of the United Blatér,
to
Accommodating
conferenco
the Secondly, should consider whether Ger- inan reprezentatives should par- ticipate, By this
Adenauer clearly means Fast as well as West German.
Both proposals cut right across the agreed policy of the Western Powers,
their clatnt to the swampland. later handķā Embassy offcials
the serall over to the Ameri-happy can Sisle Department...
In'ite original draft, the note I understand Wen more BC- commodating still, but when Adenauer showed it to the West they promptly requested its language should be riffened.
Dut, the West, Is ally un- Their polley always has been that the peace treaty The tribe caritands that the can be negotiated only after Reminole Nallost never signed | Germany has be re-united. pdoo renty with the And they refused to have any United States and claims that | diplomatie · dealings whatever Hey are still bound
by with the present. East German ironíies dailng: back to the Government which they do not Blated! and the Blate of 18th ́ | Century, with Deliain, | recognise. - London" Express
Bervice... ***Proriak try the・・ Alspaté över )- · Frases ·and⋅ Spain-Repler,
The deputatlan left a largO back kitsaroll address 1 to the queen making they the British Governmeni use ita Influedee with the United
"
just like being there!
$10,000 To Police Officer
A
well-dressed young
woman appeared be- fore Mr I. N. S. Don- nell at Kowloon, Court this morning on a charge of bribery.
The woman, Greta Kwong alina Kwong Ling-kit, 21, of 252 Prince Edward Rond, second floor, was remanded one day and Was allowed ball of $10,000.
The charge alleged that on October 17, together with Chu Lung, she had offered $10,000 a month to Mr Alexander Cochrane, an officer of the Hongkong Police Force, as a reward for, or otherwise
on account
of Mr Cochrane for- bearing properly to carry out his duty as Divis sional Superintendent of Kowloon City Police divi sion in respect of certains acts that might theres after be committed 'in 'the Kowloon City police area. Kwong was represented by Mr Arthur Lui of. Messrs Lo and Lo... Mr D. F. O. Mayne, Crown Counsel, appeared for the prosecution, assisted by Mr F. G. Jenkins, As- sistant Superintendent of Police
the
Anti- Corruption Branch.
of
Ten Killed
re- the
Kansas City, Nov. 18. At least 10 people are ported killed by one of
must sever earliest-and winter storms ever recorded here which continued to sweep northward over the midwestern states today,
Was
Thousands of square miles of America's mid-west covered with deep mow drifts, debris caused by tornado-force winds and floods from awollen rivers and streams.--Router.
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